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The Best Articles & Videos Showing How Parkland’s Teens Are Responding To Tragedy

NOTE: This post was originally headlined “Quote Of The Day: Teen Shooting Survivors Call For Change.” However, because of its importance and subsequent articles appearing in the media, I turned it into a “Best” list…

Stoneman Douglas students announce March for Our Lives on March 24. “One of the things we’ve been hearing is that it’s not the yet time to talk about gun control… so here’s the time we’re going to talk about gun control.” pic.twitter.com/CLUf6JM9fs

Speaking publicly at a rally, Emma González, a senior, pledged that her school would be the site of the nation’s last mass shooting. How could she know? Because, she said, she and her peers would take it upon themselves to “change the law.” https://t.co/ihuobqsAwv

Student Emma Gonzalez’s message to Congress: “This is our fight now, because you messed it up so badly that you left it to the kids. Now it’s our job, and you can’t try to take that back from us.” pic.twitter.com/7PwYCpJUmH

So far, Parkland is *not* fading from the news the way that mass shootings usually do. (The graph shows Google searches for the term “gun control”.) The students speaking out makes a pretty big difference. pic.twitter.com/8IcJuJ6yTS

My parents chose Parkland to settle in because of the high school’s stellar reputation, and because we thought that it was a safe place to live. But that isn’t true anymore. The promise of safety and security failed us. https://t.co/lj1sHIse73

The Never Again movement gathers momentum: “I want my dad to keep his guns. We’re just trying to just not let seventeen of us get shot in the fucking face again,” Cameron Kasky, a student co-founder of the Never Again movement, said. https://t.co/t14kqIqRk5

(1/4)Yesterday, the members of @AMarch4OurLives got to meet up with some of the most wonderful and most strong spoken students of Chicago. “Florida’s safest city” and one of the cities in America most affected by gun violence came together to share stories, ideologies, and pizza. pic.twitter.com/3SIDgvAnDM

“I don’t even want more school resource officers. Do you know the racial discrepancies they have against African-American and Latino students? We’re going to create a system where we widen the school-to-prison pipeline.”
— David Hogg https://t.co/Dq8JI8WEOB via @outline

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